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2nd Rack done! Had a hard time getting readings but the Added honey was 17.5 sugar by weight, 70 SG, 9.0 ABV. The juice added one didnt read much at all but showed 1.0 sugar by weight, 1.5 SG and .5 ABV. Smells much better than the first rack. That smelled like race gas. The wife will taste...

That looks good....and a lot!

Looks nice!

Thanks for the encouragement! Sure is thicker than yours. Patience? :)

Kinda..I guess you are right. Most sediment is at the bottom. It’s just very thick looking. Still bubbling!

well...time to rack and my added honey one will have to be strained before I can actually rack it. It’s like a very pulpy juice! How can I tell if this one is bad? The added blueberry juice one seems to be fine. I’ll find out soon!

that looks good! Mine looks nothing like that. Can’t see through it right now. I have not used any type of clarifier yet. The one with added grape juice doesn’t have gunk at the bottom. The one with added honey and water does. It will get there!

You know, I looked at the batch today and the 1/2 added blueberry juice is still bubbling every 30 seconds. The 1/2 honey added is not. I thought it was done fermenting?

Not many... I made a 5 gallon beer a few years ago. I think I’ll stick to mead. Beer is a little smelly to me

Yeah, I’m learning that. So much for trying to be all natural! This mead making takes some patience doesn’t it?

I had a decent gravity reading when I first started so fingers crossed in a month! Thanks for the tips Art

videojunkie, finally got a chance to follow your advice. Had NO idea blueberry juice was so hard to find! I split the wine equally into two. I added blueberry juice to one and a mixture of honey and water in the other. So you say wait a month and have the wife taste it? The yeast should be done...

ha! Yup! My Brother in Law’s farm. I only picked enough for two gallons. Guess he thought he owed me Cuz I did mary his sister. 🤔🤣

AND this batch is probably worse with the tannins because I tried to be all natural and whatnot and picked them wild. I have a lot of work ahead of me. 😅

Ok...I have a few empty ones so I guess there’s nothing wrong with dividing in half and experimenting with each and letting the wife decide. I’ll let you know in a month! Thanks much! Art

Yes! It’s a lot of fun even tho this is the third year and I haven’t made a good batch yet! 😂. Backstory.. I’m a Beekeeper and I have all this honey. I’ve never tasted alcohol before in my lifetime. No problem, my wife drinks and I’m trying to impress her! I messed of my first attempt with peach...

Thanks much Videojunkie! Thats a good description I can understand. I read up on tannins but not so much of how to get rid of them. I’m going to try blueberry juice because the wife said she couldn’t taste the blueberry. I got the blueberries wild from my brother in law’s farm. now, this...

It’s a gallon recipe should I add enough juice for two gallons and keep racking over the months? Leaving it in the bucket 48 hours didn’t help but I did have everything in milk nut cheese cloth bags and the recipe asked for the peel of an orange for flavor

Blueberry concentrate? Do I add it directly to the charboy?

Oh good! I thought it could only get worse. after simmering the honey vanilla and mashed frozen berries for 30 minutes, I placed it in a fermenting bucket overnight. The next morning I stirred it and took a gravity reading. Then I sprinkled some yeast in and covered it. After a week I put it in...